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This task is about identifying the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and summary sentence in a paragraph of description.

Task: use information and observation skills to identify whether pictures of fish are either bony fish or sharks. Assessment focus: classification, interpreting a Venn diagram.

In this NEMP task students look at photos to describe similar and different environmental features of the moon, the Earth, Mars and the sun. Assessment focus: The solar system. In the original NEMP task the assessor gave oral instructions, read the questions and wrote the answers for each student.

For this NEMP task students show the changes to a trip meter on a speedo after specified distances are travelled.

Students are provided with a food web based on organisms of the rocky shore and sea. Students use this to answer questions about food chains in the food web.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to visualise and infer. SJ-3-3-1989. Text not provided.

Students identify which shapes are identical to a given shape that have been rotated.

Students identify which nets can be folded to make an open box shape.

Students draw five different views of a 3-dimensional cube model.

Students identify shapes after they have been rotated in 3 dimensions.

For this task students are provided with photographs of four different types of weta. Students are asked to give two features that weta have in common with each other and to give two features that show weta belong to the group insects.

Students round distances to the nearest 10 or 100.

Students calculate the number of free gifts distributed at a Tennis Championship given the number of people entering and the frequency of the gifts given away.

Students show probabilities by shading a spinner.

Students identify numbers using clues which give the range within which each number falls and two factors with their remainder.

Students are given the definitions for permanent and temporary change. The students then give two examples from the kitchen of each type of change.

Students identify common spelling errors and write the identified errors correctly. Students also identify lines of text without errors.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find details that relate to the main idea of a text about a Māori naturalist/scientist. Students are asked to read a text, find details about the given main idea, then justify why they think the main idea is right or wrong.

Students are asked four short questions that explore their understanding of the Earth's rotation, Earth's revolution, and seasons.

An extract about Sāmoan life provides the context for this assessment with its focus on retrieving information and making inferences. Text available.

Task: match seed description to a dispersal method. Assessment focus: seed dispersal.

Students answer three questions by interpreting a weather map and other forecast information.

This resource has students comparing four advertisements on holiday camps and identifying the meaning of a slogan.

Students interpret data presented in a frequency table to calculate percentages and make comparisons.

Students use the scaled plan of a property to calculate the area of the pool, house, and lawn.